Victorians have sent a message to the Allan government with voters abandoning Labor in its previously safe seat of Werribee, while the Victorian Liberals have pulled ahead of the Greens in Prahran.
Voters in Melbourne's outer west have sent a message to Jacinta Allan's government by abandoning Labor at the Werribee by-election, while Brad Battin's Liberal Party have pulled ahead in the Greens-held seat of Prahran.
But voters in the outer western Melbourne seat have abandoned the party in droves, with Labor’s primary vote falling from 45.4 per cent to just 28.7 per cent. With just over 75 per cent of votes counted, Labor’s John Lister holds a narrow 2PP lead of 50.5 per cent to 49.5 for the Liberal candidate. With just over two-thirds of the vote counted, Liberal candidate Rachel Westaway holds a 2PP lead of 51.6 per cent to the Greens’ 48.4 per cent.
However the Liberal’s Rachel Westaway has picked up a 5.1 per cent swing, with a primary vote of 36.2 per cent, while Independent and former Labor MP for Prahran Tony Lupton picked up 12.8 per cent of the vote.
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